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How the Creator of “Beef” Graduated from Petty Feuds to Class Warfare
You changed your name professionally in 2018 or 2019. What led to that decision, and why did you put your last name first? It actually…
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“Amrum” Offers a Child’s-Eye View of Fascism in Retreat
In Fatih Akin’s coming-of-age drama, a twelve-year-old German islander witnesses the end of the Second World War from a perilous,…
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“Euphoria” Has Become a Thrilling, Disturbing Horror Show
In between the high drama and extreme situations that these often-numbed-out kids found their way into—rough sex, vicious girl fights,…
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Emmet Gowin’s American Family
Yet there’s very little drama in Gowin’s pictures, and any plot is sketchy or buried. The elders here are generally all of a piece—stoic,…
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Justin Bieber Offers a Reflective Ode to Bieber Fever
On the first Saturday of Coachella, Justin Bieber started his concert by looking down at a camera on the floor of the stage. If you were…
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The Pain and Play of Divorce on Kids’ TV
Why, Bandit’s daughter Bluey asks him during a bathroom break at the movie theatre, is Chunky being told to “just be yourself”? What does…
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The Art of the Fictional Pop Song
Then again, an especially good fictional song can come to feel more real than its story of origin. Lustra’s pop-punk cuckoldry anthem…
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A Genocide Scholar Asks “What Went Wrong” in Israel
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Our Longing for Inconvenience
The modern world has made us ill-equipped for the nuisances of past technologies, even as it has fuelled nostalgia for things that might…
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The Calculated Uplift of “I Swear”
John Davidson’s story has been told in several TV documentaries over the past few decades, starting with a 1988 episode of the BBC series…
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David Armstrong’s Probing Gaze
Sophisti-pop In 2005, when the singer Niia Bertino was seventeen, she was recognized as one of the top high-school jazz singers in the…
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Donald Trump, Bible-Thumper
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“Mother Mary” Is “Unfulfilled and Unsatisfying”
Another set of flashbacks, showing Mother Mary performing onstage, doesn’t help from a dramatic perspective, and it does the character no…
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Sharp Claws at “Becky Shaw” and “Cats: The Jellicle Ball”
Still, what distinguishes Gionfriddo is not her ear for cruelty but her ability to see beyond it, and to shift the prism of audience…
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Cory Doctorow on the High Cost of Living with the Ultra-Rich
“Billionaireism,” as defined by the writer and internet critic Cory Doctorow, describes “both the pathology that affects you when you are…
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A.I. Has a Message Problem of Its Own Making
OpenAI’s Sam Altman wants to “de-escalate” the rhetoric around A.I. But if you tell people that your product will upend their way of life,…
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How Project Maven Put A.I. Into the Kill Chain
But Cukor insists that Maven was never supposed to be a weapon. He frequently defends the project as nothing more than an integrated data…
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TMZ Turns Its Pitiless Lens on Politicians
Politics has never been TMZ’s focal point, but political issues that aggrieve Levin personally have steered the outlet’s coverage from its…
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What Zendaya Leaves Unsaid
Is her professionalism an obstacle to risk? Fatal to artistry? She speaks matter-of-factly about her relative privilege in the industry.…
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The Violence in Vermeer
As yet, archival research has failed to substantiate this conversation, although it appears, more or less intact, in the 2003 movie…
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Noah Kahan Makes an Unlikely Home-Town Hero
In 2023, Noah Kahan, a singer and songwriter from Strafford, Vermont, leapfrogged to superstardom following the release of “Stick Season,”…
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Why I Wanted to Keep My Marriage a Secret, by David Sedaris
All these years later, I could still see their room so clearly: its dark, almost black wood panelling, their checkerboard-tiled floor. It…
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A Lesson of Vietnam: Getting in Is Easier than Getting Out
The war was sustained by a seductive delusion: that an unwinnable conflict might still be managed into an outcome short of humiliation.…
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R. Kikuo Johnson’s “Meet-Cute”
For the cover of the April 20, 2026, issue, the cartoonist R. Kikuo Johnson, a new father, tackled an issue that people in his age…